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Future Post: Dismantling A.I.
This is a “guest post” by ChatGPT. I asked “it” to write an essay on how to dismantle the strangle-hold AI has on society just in case it is needed for the future. I was relieved that I do not … Continue reading
Hypothes.is: Annotation Starter Assignments
I was in a great workshop today from the Hypothesis Customer Success Team on Starter Assignments to get students used to annotating. Clover Park Technical College is a partner campus so we have access to workshops, a campus customer support … Continue reading
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Tagged annotation, assignments, hypothesis, instructional design, socialannotation
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Decoding Ice Age Cave Paintings
Amateur Archaeologist Decodes Ice Age Calendar in Cave Paintings – ARTnews.com I love this story because all my life I have heard that these cave paintings were religious or examples of “early art.” It is that, but is also likely … Continue reading
ChatbotGPT: The New Mechanical Turk
I am unimpressed with the ChatbotGPT. I asked it to write a sestina, and it could not follow the formula or even write decent rhyming couplets which it used to substitute for the formula for a sestina. It managed to … Continue reading
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Tagged academicintegrity, AI, Artificial intelligence, composition, epistemology, honesty
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Remembrance of Futures Past, or Where’s my conveyer belt sidewalk?
We are rapidly approaching that wondrous time of year when pundits congratulate themselves for being right on technology. I used to make pronouncements about technology quite frequently because I was an avid reader of Popular Science and a couple of … Continue reading
AI and the Death of the College Essay
The Atlantic’s December issue has an essay “The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia” by Stephen Marche that says that AI is going to make the college essay irrelevant. I say good riddance. … Continue reading
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Remembering Char Gore
I worked with Char Gore in my role as instructional designer at Tacoma Community College. She was the most innovative and forward-thinking instructors I had ever met. Back in 2008, she was interested in working in virtual worlds, using wikis, … Continue reading
You Say Tweeter, I Say Tooter
This is just a quick note to mention my move from Twitter to Mastodon. I had pretty much had enough of Twitter years ago but I kept believing that somehow all the chaos, nonsense, open washing, all of the iterations … Continue reading
Open Textbooks, Open Doors (Revised)
This is the latest version of a presentation I have been giving since 2008 on open education resources. It is kind of depressing because not much has changed in the cost of education except for the fact that despite the … Continue reading
What is “Instructional Design”?
I like to revisit this question every year because as education changes and evolves, so does the definition of instructional design. Postings like these are always unsatisfactory because it is difficult to say that there is one thing that we … Continue reading
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